“If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.”
– Deepak Chopra
Kabir – The couplet
जग में बैरी कोई नहीं, जो मन शीतल होइ ।
ये आपा तो दाल दे, दया करे सब कोई||
transliterated:
Jag Me Bairi Koi Nahi, Jo Man Sheetal Hoy |
Yah Aapaa To Daal De, Daya Kare Sab Koye ||
Translation:
There is no enemy in this world, if the mind can stay quiet and peaceful |
If we can discard this cloak of the ego, everyone will find one-ness with us ||
My understanding:
For some reason, the past few days have been days of deep introspection for me. The deeper I inquire, the more the self show that there is really no mystery to unfold or secrets to divine. The reality is, the cloaks of ego and desire start as shimmering, beautiful, ethereal cloaks, but soon harden, solidify and convince us that they are the real us – completely masking the true me hidden within.
Often times, when the real me breaks through, others are initially scared by the vision, since the real persona is fighting to come to terms with the externally brilliant chaotic physical world, so very different for the quiet cocoon we were embedded in. And even more often, before we begin the fight, we reject the external, and retire back into the cocoon, relinquishing control to the ego and desire.
The mistake we make here is that we do not recognize the fragility of the cocoon – time and age will wither and destroy it eventually, and we have to face the world – or suffer the consequence.
So let us let our real us out into the sun, and let the real us meet and greet – and make our world truly ours!
Warm regards,
Mani
[this thread of Kabir is archived at https://www.akella.org/mani/?cat=5 ]